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National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, 2004<br />
Annual report<br />
Table 2.<br />
Notifications <strong>of</strong> communicable diseases, Australia, 2004, by state or territory, continued<br />
State or territory<br />
Disease<br />
ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA Aust<br />
Vectorborne diseases<br />
Barmah Forest virus infection 2 402 22 535 6 0 16 69 1,052<br />
Dengue 6 31 19 249 4 1 9 7 326<br />
Flavivirus (NEC)** 0 1 0 45 0 0 3 0 49<br />
Japanese encephalitis virus 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1<br />
Kunjin virus †† NN 0 0 11 0 0 1 0 12<br />
Malaria 16 101 41 263 20 15 67 36 559<br />
Murray Valley encephalitis virus 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1<br />
Ross River virus infection 6 700 235 1,795 53 20 92 1,099 4,000<br />
Zoonoses<br />
Anthrax 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0<br />
Australian bat lyssavirus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0<br />
Brucellosis 0 7 0 26 0 0 3 0 36<br />
Leptospirosis 0 40 2 110 1 0 8 5 166<br />
Ornithosis ‡‡ 0 81 0 3 5 0 146 0 235<br />
Lyssavirus (NEC) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0<br />
Q fever 2 223 3 137 38 0 28 9 440<br />
Other bacterial infections<br />
Legionellosis 1 82 2 31 45 1 98 50 310<br />
Leprosy 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 5<br />
Meningococcal infection §§ 11 153 12 81 13 18 79 41 408<br />
Tuberculosis 14 431 28 129 60 11 322 81 1,076<br />
Total 1,656 31,021 5,199 25,249 7,472 1,965 24,032 14,335 110,929<br />
* Unspecifi ed hepatitis include cases in whom the duration <strong>of</strong> infection could not be determined.<br />
† In the Northern Territory <strong>and</strong> Queensl<strong>and</strong>, includes incident hepatitis cases.<br />
‡ Notifi ed as ‘foodborne disease’ or ‘gastroenteritis in an institution’ in New South Wales.<br />
§ Infection with Shiga-like toxin/verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (SLTEC/VTEC).<br />
|| Includes Chlamydia trachomatis identifi ed from cervical, rectal, urine, urethral, throat <strong>and</strong> eye samples, except<br />
for South Australia which reports only genital tract specimens, the Northern Territory which excludes ocular<br />
specimens, <strong>and</strong> Western Australia which excludes ocular <strong>and</strong> perinatal infections.<br />
Laboratory confi rmed infl uenza is not a notifi able disease in South Australia but reports are forwarded to NNDSS.<br />
** Flavivirus (NEC) replaces Arbovirus (NEC) from 1 January 2004.<br />
†† In the Australian Capital Territory, Murray Valley encephalitis virus <strong>and</strong> Kunjin virus are combined under Murray<br />
Valley encephalitis virus.<br />
‡‡ In the Australian Capital Territory ornithosis is reported as Chlamydia not elsewhere classifi ed.<br />
§§ Only invasive meningococcal disease is nationally notifi able. However, New South Wales, the Australian Capital<br />
Territory <strong>and</strong> South Australia also report conjunctival cases.<br />
NN Not notifi able.<br />
NEC Not elsewhere classifi ed.<br />
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